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Matthew R. Lee wrote: |
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> Question 1: Should I keep the swap partition the same size or increase it? |
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If you are increasing the amount of RAM, and you currently do fine on |
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512 MB of swap, you should be OK. That said, if you are getting a ton |
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more space, what is 1 GB to dedicate to swap just in case? |
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> Question 2: (This is the main one!) The MBR? As the new disk is a direct |
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> replacement for the old one, with the same partitions etc, do I need to |
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> change anything in my grub.conf? or should it just work without |
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> modification? |
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If you use cp you will need to run grub-install, or run setup from |
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within grub, again. Make sure you use the correct flags on cp to |
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maintain permissions/owners/other attributes on the files that you are |
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copying. Another option that may be simpler and will definitely be |
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faster is using dd to copy. You will probably need to use |
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grub-install/setup if you do dd as well, unless you dd if=/dev/sda |
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of=/dev/sdb (or am I wrong about this?) |
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